Shelly Sterling (l.) with husband Donald Sterling at a Clippers game in 2010. (Mark Terrill/AP)

Donald Sterling wants another shot at the $1 billion antitrust lawsuit he filed after losing his beloved Clippers over his racist rant.

The Los Angeles billionaire filed a notice of appeal to the Ninth Circuit on Thursday.

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His lawsuit, which was dismissed by a federal judge last month, names NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and Sterling's own wife Rochelle (Shelly) Sterling as defendants. It claims they engaged in a conspiracy to sell the basketball team against his wishes to Microsoft honcho Steve Ballmer for an eye-popping $2 billion in August 2014.

"With this latest sham legal maneuver, Donald Sterling is abusing the judicial system. There is a far greater chance that the sun will rise in the west than Donald will prevail on his patently frivolous appeal," lawyer Pierce O'Donnell said in a statement.

Sterling's lawyer Bobby Samini was unavailable for comment early Friday.

U.S. District Judge Fernando Olguin dismissed Sterling's antitrust complaint on March 22, calling it "plainly insufficient."

"The court is skeptical that Sterling suffered any injury at all, let alone an antitrust injury," Judge Olguin wrote in his 13-page ruling.

The Sterling debacle broke wide open in April 2014 when TMZ.com published a blockbuster recording of the team owner telling girlfriend V. Stiviano that she shouldn't bring black people to Clippers games.

The NBA acted swiftly, fining Sterling $2.5 million and banning him for life.

Intense backlash also led Shelly to remove him as a co-trustee of their family fortune and start taking bids on the team.

"Contrary to Sterling's contention that Rochelle is an 'inexperienced business person,' Rochelle retained valuation experts and conducted an auction which produced bids of $1.2 billion, $1.6 billion and $2 billion," Judge Olguin wrote in his decision last month.